Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-12-08
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

OF the Navy, is said to intend oct,
fishing school for the trainino of d
e mestic servants in New York. and \,
in correspondence with Miss Jul;
of Corson about it.
: MRS. WILLIAM MIxrER, of Har
~ wick. Mass, has purchased a site +
o the high school building and civeu
e to the town. Thus the Scripture
fulfilled which says of the oof
Il woman. ':She considereth a field an
buyeth it,
FRANCES POWER CoBBE. in additio
to great amount of time spent i
phiianthropic work. has during tn
last twenty-five years written tiftpe
books and about twenty-five pamphlets
besides many articles for newspaper
and magazines.
Mrs. DIR. BURNSIDE has been nomi
mated for Superintendent of Education
BY the ProhibitiOnists of Buffalo. N. Y
She is the first woman ever nominate.
for political office in Buffalo, and tn,
Eren'ng Neacs Says she would fill tn,
position as well as half the men in til.
city.
Mrs. A. NJ. D1Az has Just returned
from trip i'll New York. during which
she lectured at Syracuse, Buffalo and
Auburn. on her favorite subject OF
''Women's Unions" 1t is her wish
that union might be established in
every large city. so that women find.
ing themselves strangers in a strange
place might have place to 90 to for
information, protection and friendly
advice.
Miss FLORENCE MACNAGHroN. of
Bushmills, in the north of Ireland.
lately tried to persuade fisherman to
sign the pledge. He said he would do
so if she would swim across the bav
from Blackjack to Port Ballantree, a
distance of about mile. The Young
lady accepted the challenge, and ac-
complished the swim in thirtv-nine
minutes. The fisherman now wears
the blue ribbon.
SIGNORA CRIsPI. the wife of the Ital.
ian Minister to England. is much inter- !
ested in the education of her country.
women. Feeling how useful friendly
intercourse with foreign ladies would .
be. she means to establish in Rome an
international Ladies' Club, where wom-
en- OF all nations can meet. A readin o.
room will be opened and lectures given,
and discussions held asto the best means
Tor establishing industrial schools and
schools of technical instruction for
Mrs. S B. MAXWELL. State Libra.
ian OF Iowa. makes the following sem
'ible suggestion. among others. in her
biennial report to the Governor: Zone
important need is strips of mating
rom door to door and from end to
nd of the library. To nervous ,
PERSONS and those unaccustomed to |
tudying in public. the tread of the va
iety OF boots and shoes. from the /
tenor to the profound bass,
!. the constant string of visitors and +
ight-seers. is very distracting:
MADAME ZAMP1Nl SALAzARo, editor 4
I the Italian magazine, Rassegna Z
egH Interest Femminili. pays a
'ibute to the late President of Coun- {
il. Agostino Depretis, for the services
tn" woman's cause in Italy. 1t. the
rejected communal and provincial q
gislation which bore his name, he
roposes to give women the admins -
ative vote on the same terms rs =,
en. The Englishvomaa's Reriew q
US: LET us trust that his success -
rs will be rs liberal-minded in this ~
spect, and that such law may be O. 3.
lssed." II
WOMEN need the ballot. not because -
ey are angels. but because they -,
e one-half the human race. II -,
omen vote. they will often vote ig- =
'rantly or angrily or selfishly, as =.
EN- do; and they have the same right -
commit these errors and to learn by =.
EN-. For self-protection, for Justice. -.
the consistency of our political -,
inciples. they have a right to the -,
Hot. If a pair of sissors breaks
art. we have it riveted again; not A.,
cause either half possesses angelic -.
periority over the other, but because ~,
takes two halves to make a whole. o.,
T. W. Higginson.
FRANCES WILLARD says: "It is . pu
'iOus fact but in no non-co-e,Iuca. wi,
nal cOllege-tOwn of which hear. ire
IS the w. C. T. U. flourish; sar
lie co-educational schools, of no an,
tier how high grade. furnish CON the
hal environment to our work. II Ala
ms to be principle that the morr .cc
nastic college or a church may tho
the less hospitality Of thought has m,
for progressive movements, es- v;t
tally among women Hence :: il str,
hese college towns and churches snr
we are seldom asked to speak, o, fro,
BED to found > society which. in the I
able judgment of White Ribbonera ear
needed to purify the NJ. ~.